He postponed the triumph offered to him until he had also defeated the Cimbrians. Although away from home, Marius was elected consul for the fifth time. After this, he defeated these enemies in two battles near Aquae Sextiae, in which - they say - 200,000 enemies were killed and 90,000 captured. Consul Gaius Marius defended his camp against a violent attack by the Teutons and Ambronians. Praetor Marcus Antonius pursued the pirates to Cilicia. They returned to Gaul and joined the Teutons in the land of the Veliocassians. Having devastated everything between Rhône and Pyrenees, the Cimbrians moved through a mountain pass into Hispania, where they were - after having devastated many districts - routed by the Celtiberians. The people chose Gnaeus Domitius as pontifex maximus. He was away when he was elected for consul for the second and third time, and obtained a fourth consulship by pretending not to be aiming for it. Marius entered the Senate in triumphal dress, something no one had ever done before, and his consulship was prolonged out of fear of the Cimbrian war. During the triumph of Gaius Marius, Jugurtha walked in front of the chariot with his two sons, and was killed in the jail. Caepio, who had caused the defeat by his rashness, was convicted his possessions were confiscated (for the first time since king Tarquinius) and his powers abrogated. Defeated by the same enemies, consul Gnaeus Manlius and proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio were stripped of both their camps according to Valerius Antias, 80,000 soldiers and 40,000 servants and camp followers were killed near Arausio. He was killed by a savage young man, Boiorix. After the defeat of his army, Marcus Aurelius Scaurus, a deputy of the consul, was captured by the Cimbrians and called to their council, where he deterred them from crossing the Alps and going to Italy, saying that the Romans were unconquerable. He threw Jugurtha in chains and handed him over to Marius in this affair, the main actor was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the quaestor of Gaius Marius. When Jugurtha, expelled from Numidia by Gaius Marius, received help of Bocchus, king of the Maurians, Bocchus' troops were slaughtered in battle and Bocchus no longer wanted to continue the war he had so unfortunately undertaken. This translation was made by Jona Lendering. A large part of Livy's History of Rome since the Foundation is now lost, but fortunately we have an excerpt, called the Periochae, which helps us reconstruct the general scope.
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